Program Manager

Job Description:

Migration Factory Lead / Program Manager Overview

The organization is undergoing a major divestiture, requiring the relocation of all internally owned applications and data currently hosted in a managed data center environment. Approximately 70% of workloads will be migrated to Microsoft Azure, with the remaining 30% transitioning to a new physical data center environment.

The Migration Factory Lead will oversee the structured, wave-based migration program that enables this transition with zero business disruption. This role drives intake, readiness, execution, and validation across all migration waves while coordinating across cloud, infrastructure, networking, data, and application teams.

• Lead the end-to-end operation of the Migration Factory, including intake, readiness assessments, execution oversight, and post-migration validation.
• Establish and maintain governance, processes, and reporting to ensure consistent, high-quality migration delivery.
• Coordinate change control and scope management for the Migration Factory and wave schedule calendar.
• Guide the migration of ~70% of applications and data to Microsoft Azure, ensuring alignment with cloud architecture, landing zone standards, and security requirements.
• Oversee the migration of the remaining ~30% of workloads to the designated physical data center environment.
• Ensure all migrations adhere to zero-downtime principles and sequencing constraints.

• Develop the migration wave plan and sequence workloads based on application tiering, dependencies, and downtime tolerance.
• Manage wave schedules, resource alignment, and cross-team coordination to maintain delivery momentum.

• Facilitate cutover readiness checkpoints, ensuring all technical and business prerequisites are met.
• Lead go/no-go discussions with executive stakeholders and technical teams.
• Oversee post-cutover validation to confirm successful migration and operational stability.

• Coordinate activities across technical teams, including cloud engineering, networking, data, application owners, and infrastructure specialists.
• Serve as the central point of communication for migration status, risks, issue management, and resolution.

• Enforce zero-downtime operating principles, dependency sequencing, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Track progress across all waves, expedite blockers, and drive corrective actions to maintain schedule and quality targets.
• Ensure documentation, runbooks, and validation artifacts are complete and audit-ready.

A strong candidate typically brings:

• 8–10 years of experience in technical program management.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale cloud or data center migrations, ideally with Microsoft Azure.
• Strong understanding of migration methodologies, application dependency management, data replication and cutover processes, hybrid on-premise and cloud environments, and operational readiness frameworks.
• Ability to coordinate across multiple technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with divestiture-driven migrations or separation programs (preferred but not required).